Moreover, privately owned prisons have a high rate of staff turnover and the security at the privately managed facilities is often troubled attracting the media because of its potential problems and abuses. For instance, in the mid-1990s the Northeast Ohio Correction experienced 13 stabbings, 2 murders and 6 escaped inmates during its first 14 months of operation. Further, in April 2000, Wackenhut, the second largest national private prison firm, stopped its contract to run the Juvenile Justice Center in Jena, Louisiana after the U.S. Department of Justice filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the facility provided inadequate care for its juvenile prisoners (Cheung). These egregious and troubling events, among many others, support the findings
